Now, this dog is referred to by some of our neighbours as the 'village idiot'. It's not trained and completely ignores its owners. Normally, I avoid going outside if I see this dog around anywhere, but yesterday it appeared while I was already out. So, of course, I got dirty paws and dog-slobber all over my coat, as well as a huge, horrible dog throwing itself at me while I try to back away. Owner shouts for dog to come away. Dog finally gets bored about three minutes later.
There is just no excuse for that. I mean, you know Stuart and I dote on Homer. It's a good thing he's so eager to please and generally good-natured because he's thoroughly ruined.
But I don't expect the world to love him. (
Homer expects the world to love him and looks baffled when someone walks past him in the street without even saying hello, but that's his problem. <g>)
I'm always careful when we pass someone to keep him to heel and make sure he doesn't jump up if they do stop to talk to him. Muddy paws, if nothing else! The other evening we were out and a man and a young boy were coming down the path towards us. Just ahead of us another man had a fairly large husky, which was obviously still a pup. Off the lead, of course. As they passed the boy, this dog just lunged at him and the owner just yanked it back and wandered on. Not even an apology. And then the man with the boy glowered at us on the way past! Can't blame him for being annoyed though. I'd have been, too. The kid got a heck of a fright. This was a big, boisterous animal.
You and your neighbours should start sending them dry cleaning bills, W. See how they take to that!
Lara - you poor thing! Here's hoping you get used to those new glasses soon and that headache eases up. I had a really bizarre reaction to my last pair of new glasses. Put them on and the entire world was sloping to the left. It was like San Francisco. After a couple of days it all went right again. Pretty strange though, at the time.
And it was really hard to walk in a straight line for a spell.
LabRat
